Hi,
I'm trying to reinstall 13.04. The stage in the process where it tries to restore previously installed packages is hanging every time. The 'skip' button greys out and the terminal says something about the packages being broken. If I simply terminate the install at this point the system won't boot; it gets stuck at a black screen (with just a white underscore in the corner).
I can get the exact error message if it's helpful but what I want to do at this point is reinstall without restoring packages, since that would be faster and I mainly want to save some drawings and downloads. (I mean, sure I could take the hard drive out and back those up but honestly I've had a hard time any time I wanted to get at this laptop's hard drive.)
For anyone curious the initial reason I tried to reinstall was because 1) my wireless works flawlessly trying 13.04 on a usb drive 2) my wireless takes five or six minutes to work starting up in 12.10, including the delay while the startup screen says 'waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration' 3) simply upgrading the system to 13.04 didn't fix this delay.
I'm trying to reinstall 13.04. The stage in the process where it tries to restore previously installed packages is hanging every time. The 'skip' button greys out and the terminal says something about the packages being broken. If I simply terminate the install at this point the system won't boot; it gets stuck at a black screen (with just a white underscore in the corner).
I can get the exact error message if it's helpful but what I want to do at this point is reinstall without restoring packages, since that would be faster and I mainly want to save some drawings and downloads. (I mean, sure I could take the hard drive out and back those up but honestly I've had a hard time any time I wanted to get at this laptop's hard drive.)
For anyone curious the initial reason I tried to reinstall was because 1) my wireless works flawlessly trying 13.04 on a usb drive 2) my wireless takes five or six minutes to work starting up in 12.10, including the delay while the startup screen says 'waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration' 3) simply upgrading the system to 13.04 didn't fix this delay.